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Air Pollution Task Force, Environmental Center, University of Hawaii(Environmental Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1971-01)

This report has been prepared in response to the request of the Department of Health, State of Hawaii for a review by the Environmental Center, University of Hawaii of the air quality standards prepared by the Department.Air ...

Cox, Doak C.(Environmental Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1989-06)

This report deals with an issue concerning the seismic risk zone to which the island of Oahu should be assigned in the Uniform Building Code (UBC) and the building code of the City and County of Honolulu. At present the ...

Act 176 (1975) calls for the establishment of a "Special Management Area" for shoreline protection, and for the institution of special controls on development in that area. This report on Special Management Area boundaries ...

Cox, Doak C.(Environmental Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1980-04)

It is probable but not quite certain that immediately below the proposed point of diversion of 10 million gallons per day from Hanawi Stream, the stream will be entirely dry, except for pools, at some times when the diversion ...

The 100-year tsunami runup height at Ke-Ahole Point, Hawaii has been variously estimated as between 6.7 feet and 15 feet above sea level. The estimates have been assigned to various near-shore loci, and at least two different ...

Cox, Doak C.(Environmental Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1977-10)

The tsunami research group at the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics was asked by Urban 9, consultants to DAGS in planning for a new infirmary at Kalaupapa, Molokai, to advise on the tsunami hazard at proposed sites for the ...

Cox, Doak C.(Environmental Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1985-01)

Local contemporary documents indicate that a number of unusual and even peculiar geophysical events occurred in Hawaii during the last four months of 1903, some of which seem not to have been noted in recent geophysical ...

Economic, residential, and infrastructure development has occurred at a rapid rate in Micronesia and American Samoa during the past two decades. As a consequence, the once pristine natural environment has become somewhat ...

Miller, Jacquelin N.; Walters, John F.(Environmental Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1983-08)

The recent installation of the shallow (4.3 m) and deep (600 m) coastal water supply pipes and support facilities at the University of Hawaii's National Energy Laboratory of Hawaii (NELH) at Keahole, Hawaii provides a new ...